File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Marek Balin conducted by Charles Roland in Timberlake, Ohio on May 16th, 1983. Topics cover Balin’s early life and family members in Warsaw, educational conditions for Jews before the Second World War in Warsaw, life in the medical school of Sorbonne University, life as an in-house staff of the Jewish Hospital (Czyste Hospital), education and social life as a medical student of the underground medical school in the Warsaw ghetto, the massive deportations in July 1942, life hiding in Warsaw until 1945, life after the war, and relationships with other Warsaw ghetto survivors interviewed by Dr. Roland.
Also included is a portrait of Balin taken at time of the interview, a copy of Balin’s identification card (1942), and a copy of Balin’s student card from the University of Warsaw (1948). Identification cards are in German.
CA ON00425 F001-1-1-1
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1942-1948, 1983
Part of Charles G. Roland fonds